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Table I
Linear correlations (Pearson coefficient, r) computed between morphological traits, F1 and F2 axes of PCA (see Fig. 4) and epigenetic variables. Only significant values are indicated by asterisk: * P ≤ 0.05, ** P ≤ 0.01 and *** P ≤ 0.001. “Control”and “Stressed”represent plants in well-watered or in water deficit conditions, respectively.
| %mC | DNMT | AcH3 | AcH4 | HDAC | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C | S | C | S | C | S | C | S | C | S | |||||
| SB | 0.89* | |||||||||||||
| RB | 0.85* | |||||||||||||
| Hgh | 0.98*** | 0.83* | 0.85* | 0.81* | ||||||||||
| TLA | ||||||||||||||
| LN | 0.98*** | 0.85* | 0.94** | 0.85* | ||||||||||
| SLA | ||||||||||||||
| F1 axis | 0.92** | 0.86* | 0.82* | |||||||||||
| F2 axis | –0.90* | –0.83* | ||||||||||||
